The Great Thanksgiving Cranberry Scare Of 1959
"Just days before Thanksgiving that year, Arthur Fleming, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, set off the first nationwide food panic by announcing that domestic cranberry products were contaminated with a carcinogenic herbicide called aminotriazole."
"He failed to point out that one would have to eat 15,000 pounds of cranberries every day for several years to get cancer. The White House didn’t help. Mamie Eisenhower served applesauce with dinner that Thanksgiving. When the newspapers got hold of that, cranberries were toast...."
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Then came the Strontium 90 in milk scare...followed by Rachel Carson's tear jerker about evil DDT...and so on, and so on....and here we are.
Like I tell my grandkids.
We were so dumb we went to the moon and back using equipment that was designed with slide rules, drawn on vellum with pencil, and fabricated by high school grads running manually controlled machines.
Good God.
And don’t forget the infamous “Alar Scare” back in the early Nineties...
As for that Leftist fraud Rachel Carson, I know I am not the only one who detests her and her techniques...I know I am not the only one who feels that way.
I drive by the Rachel Carson National Wildlife area in Maine on occasion, and recently I was with my buddy who, as we drove by said:
“Hand Salute!” (bilaterally raised middle finger)
“Two!”